Steven Spielberg

And sometimes Richard pushed Robert to the brink.

But you don't do that

to other people unless underneath it is an enduring admiration.

Right.

And respect.

And I think that's what gets overlooked after all these years.

Of thinking they really didn't like each other.

That's not true.

But it serves the movie.

And I was happy about it.

Yeah.

Because when they got in front of the camera, they knew their business.

They knew who they were to each other as Hooper and Quint.

Oh, we stopped him.

It's true.

And you also get kind of seduced by the amazing musical choices.

You know, he hired his composer

When Stanley directed Spartacus, Alex North, one of the greatest Hollywood film composers ever, composed a brilliant score for Spartacus.

It's one of the greatest scores ever written for a film, especially the main title that Alex North did.

And so Stanley employed Alex to write the score, a film score for 2001 The Space Odyssey, and very quickly threw it out because it turned his movie too much into a movie.